Skein-forming device



SKEIN FORMING DEVICE Filed June 8, 1935 BY 4' fr.

' ATTORNEY.

Patented May 19, 1936 JNHTED STATE ATENT GFFICE 3 Claims.

This yinvention relates to improvements in winding apparatus and is directed more particularly to devices for winding up yarn in the form of skeins.

The principal objects of the invention are directed to the provision of a skein-forming device which is constructed and arranged to form symmetrical skeins of yarn and the like and which is collapsible so as to permit ready and easy removal of the skein therefrom.

According to a special feature of the invention, the skein-forming device consists of a novel combination and arrangement of parts and is not only simple in form and therefore economical to manufacture but easy of manipulation and efficient for the purpose intended.

Various other novel features and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter more fully referred to in connection with the accompanying description of the preferred form of the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawing wherein:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational View of the skeinforming device of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a partial front elevational view of the hub and arm of the device shown in Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevational view on the line 3 3 of Fig. l; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional elevational line 4--4 of Fig. 3.

Referring now to the drawing more in detail the invention will be fully described.

view on the A shaft or arbor 2 is provided which carries a pair of adjacent hubs 4 and 6. Rollers 8 may be provided on the ends of the shaft to facilitate supporting of the skein-forming device.

The hub 8 is preferably secured to the shaft 2 as by a set screw I while the hub 4 is rotatable on the shaft 2. The rotative movements of the hub 4 are preferably limited, however, by means later to be described.

Means in the form of a collar I2 is associated with the shaft 2 to hold the hub 4 against the hub B in its rotative movements. Arms such as I4 project outwardly from the hub 4 while other arms I6 project outwardly from the hub 6.

Caps such as I8 are pro-vided on the outer ends of the arms I4 and I6 and these carry what may be called saddles, indicated generally by 20. Each saddle is preferably formed by a continuous piece of material such as wire having its opposite end portions 2I seated in a cap I8, as shown, and bent tohave radial end portions 22 at opposite ends of a yarn-supporting portion 24.

With the skein-forming device supported and rotated in any suitable manner, such material as yarn or the like is led onto the saddles 20 and, being caused to traverse back and forth as it is led thereonto, the rotative movements of the device will cause the yarn to be wound up in the form of a skein. The skein is supported by the parts 24 of the saddles and its width is limited by the parts 22 thereof.

The relatively rotatable hub parts 4 and 6 which carry the arms I4 and I8 facilitate swingl0 ing of the arms so that the arms I4 may be brought closely adjacent the arms I6 whereby it is possible to then remove the skeins from the saddles. Means whereby the hubs are locked against relative rotation for the skein-forming l5 operation will now be described.

A latch 28 is pivoted at 30 in one of the hubs, such as the hub 6, and this has an end 32 receivable in a slot 34 provided in the other hub 4. A spring 36 is disposed beneath the latch 28 and as- 20 sociated with the hub 3 so as to tend to urge the outer end of the latch upwardly so that its inner end 32 will enter the slot 34 of the hub 4 when the said slot and said end 32 are in register.

When it is desired to remove a skein from the 25 skein-forming device, the latch 28 is manipulated to remove the latch end 32 from the slot 34 to permit relative rotation of the hubs. Thus the arms and skein-carriers associated with one hub may be brought into close adjacency with the arms 30 and skein-carriers of the other hub. When` the skein has been removed, the arms and hubs are swung in an opposite direction until latch end 32 registers with and enters slot 34, wherein the hub is releasably locked against further rela- 35 tive rotation for a skeining operation.

In the position of the arms shown in Fig. 1, they may be said to be in their open or skeining position while when the arms of one hub are moved into close adjacency with those of the lo other they may be said to be in closed relation. When in open relation, the hubs 4 and 6 are locked against relative rotation by means of the latch 28 and as the arms are swung from their closed to their open relation for the operation of 4 the latch 28 it may be desirable to limit their swinging movements to a position where the latch end 32 will enter the slot 34.

To this end, a tongue such as may be provid- 50 ed on one of the hubs, such as 4, and this is disposed in a recess 42 in the other hub 6. The part 40 is cut away to provide shoulders 44 which are adapted to engage with the pin 46 in the recess of hub 6. Thus, when the pin 46 abuts one of the 55 shoulders 44, the swinging movements of the hub 4 are limited so that it will not rotate past a position Where the end 32 of the latch 28 will enter the slot 34.

It will be seen that I have provided a simple and efficient device which is not only adapted for the forming of uniform, regular skeins but which is so constructed and arranged as to permit the easy and ready removal of skeins therefrom without in any Way tending to disturb the arrangement of the yarn-forming skeins or to stretch or otherwise impair the same.

While I have described the invention in great detail and with respect to a preferred form thereof, it is not desired to be limited thereto since many changes and modiiications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A skein-forming device of the class described comprising in combination, a shaft having a hub fixed thereto and a second hub adjacent the first hub and rotatable on said shaft, arms extending radially from said hubs, releasable means associated with said hubs for releasably preventing relative rotative movements thereof, one of said hubs being provided with a recess and the other of said hubs being provided With a tongue receivable in said recess, and a pin in said recess for engaging said tongue when the rotatable hub is rotated.

2. A skein-forming device of the class described comprising in combination, a shaft having a hub fixed thereto and a hub rotatable thereon, said hubs being adjacent one another, arms extending outwardly from said hubs, releasable means associated with said hubs for releasably preventing relative rotative movements thereof including a spring-pressed latch member pivoted to one of said hubs and a slot in the other of said hubs for receiving said latch member, and means for limiting the rotative movements of the rotatable hub in one direction including a tongue on one of the hubs and a pin on the other hub for engaging said tongue when the rotatable hub is rotated to a certain point, all adapted and arranged whereby said rotatable hub may be rotated to said certain point to bring said latch member into register with said slot.

3. A skein-forming device of the class described comprising in combination, a shaft having one hub which is xed thereto and a second hub adjacent the rst hub which is rotatable on the shaft, a pair of arms extending radially from each of said hubs in opposite directions and having their inner end portions fixed to the hub from which they extend so as to be immovable relative thereto, releasable means associated with said hubs for releasably preventing relative rotative movements thereof, and means associated with said hubs for limiting the rotative movements of said rotatable hub in one direction, said lastnamed means consisting of a recess provided in one of said hubs which has a pin therein and a tongue provided in the other of said hubs which is receivable in said recess and engageable with said pin when the rotatable hub is rotated to a certain position relative to the other hub.

JAMES P. SHORROCK. 

